At
the family home, this place, Monday, Sept. 3, 1894, Mrs. Mary Spill, wife of
Walter B. Spill, aged 53 years and 4 months. Mrs. Spill was born at Blaina,
Wales, but had resided in this country the greater part of her life. The
testimony of the community in which she lived is that “she was a Christian neighbor.
Her husband mourns the loss of “a faithful wife,” and her children “a devoted
mother.” Three daughters – Misses M. Edith, Emily A. and Ethel, and two sons – W.
Edgar, and Elmer – survive. Alfred Meyrick, of Jersey Shore, Pa., and Mrs. George
Cook, of this place, brother and sister – also survive. The funeral services
were conducted Thursday afternoon by C. T. Russell, of Allegheny, Pa., a large
concourse attending. Frostburg, Maryland, Mining Journal, September 08, 1894.
4 comments:
Am I correct that the son, W. Edgar Spill, is the same as the Dr. W. E. Spill who was appointed an interim WT director in 1917, along with John A. Bohnet, and George H. Fisher?
It seems so.
The January 15, 1919 Watch Tower shows W.E. Spill being re-elected as a WTS director. Interestingly, the chairman of the nominating committee, E.D. Sexton, did not nominate Spill, but he received more votes than Evander J. Coward, whom Sexton did nominate. Spill was not re-elected at the 1920 Annual Meeting. An Internet search shows he died in 1953. I did not find any indication whether he was one of Jehovah's Witnesses when he died.
Spill did not stay in association with the Watch Tower Society. When he died, he and his family were buried in United Cemeteries (he had been a manager there at one time) but not in the special Society plot.
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